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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau will travel to Laos later this week for the ASEAN summit, marking what his office says will be the first official visit of a Canadian prime minister to the Southeast Asian country.

The Pope significantly increased the size of the College of Cardinals with Sunday's appointments, further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day elect his successor.

VANCOUVER — The calculus of predicting an election and identifying its key battlegrounds is complex enough in any race, but observers of the British Columbia poll this month are facing a pair of unknown quantities that make the maths even more confou

MONTREAL — Raquel Ohnona Look wipes back tears when her eyes fall on the plaque in honour of her son Alexandre, affixed to a bench in a suburban Montreal green space that was recently renamed for him. "Forever in our hearts.

The other 23 people believed to be in the building when the fire broke out all made it out, with one person remaining in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Montreal police say.

"We need to see peace in the region," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Paris on the final day of the Francophonie summit.

There has also been escalating violence in other parts of the Middle East, including between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.

Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court to overturn regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies. Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc. and Couche-Tard Inc.

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — First Nations leaders say the pride two Saskatchewan courthouse staff felt on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation turned to shame after they were told to change out of the orange clothing they wore to work.

A sod-turning ceremony is set to be held Saturday morning at the site of the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan.